Chains of Opportunity: The University of Akron and the Emergence of The Polymer Age 1909–2007

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Buchtel College Campus 17 Professors at Buchtel College 19 Charles Knight 21 Knight’s Early Chemical Laboratory and Lecture Room 23 The Ruins of Old Buchtel College 24 Crouse Gymnasium 25 The New Buchtel Hall 25 Knight Chemical Laboratory 29 Knight Chemical Laboratory Floor Plan 31 Hezzleton Simmons and the Curtis College Girls 33 Hezzleton Simmons’s Graduation Picture 34 The Charles Knight Chemical Laboratory 37 Hezzleton Simmons 39 Portrait of Charles Knight 43 A Statue of Charles Knight 44 Hezzleton Simmons and Charles Stillman 53 G.S. Whitby 55 Whitby on a River in Malaysia 56 Rubber Laboratory 59 Richard H. Schmidt and G.S. Whitby 60 The Government Synthetic Research Laboratories 68 The Construction of the Knight Chemical Laboratory, Hezzleton Simmons 75 The Chemistry Department 89 Knight Hall 90 vii Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page vii Norman P. Auburn 92 The Chemistry Department Laboratories 97 The Institute of Rubber Research 101 One of the First Polymer Science-Chemistry Classes 105 Ralph Milkovich 109 Maurice Morton, Thomas Sumner, and G.S. Whitby 117 Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration 119 H. James Harwood, Irja Piirma 122 Alan Gent 123 Eberhard Meinecke 124 Donald McIntyre 125 Joseph Kennedy 126 The Polymer Laboratory 129 Maurice Morton 144 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Cartoon 155 Frank Kelley in His Laboratory 156 Darrell H. Reneker 173 Artist’s Rendering of the Polymer Science Building 179 Architect’s Model of the Polymer Science Building 180 William V. Muse and Frank Kelley, Polymer Science Building Groundbreaking 182 The Polymer Science Building under Construction 183 The Dedication of the Polymer Science Building 184 The Goodyear Polymer Center 185 The Goodyear Polymer Center at Night 187 James L. White 200 William Muse, Sidney Olson 202 Students Operate an Injection Molding Machine 203 Extruding and Blowing a Bubble Film 204 Thein Kyu, Avraam Isayev, Kyonsku Min-Cakmak, Mukerrem Cakmak 206 Frank Kelley, James White, and a Group of University of Akron Polymer Alumni from Korea 209 Huntsman Packaging Corporation Equipment 211 Aubert Coran 212 Alan Gent 213 viii illustrations Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page viii Students in the Main Lobby Atrium of the Polymer Engineering Academic Center 218 Sadhan Jana 220 The Polymer Engineering Academic Center 221 Luis M. Proenza 227 A Computer Rendering of the Goodyear’s Spirit of Akron Blimp 231 The Golden Orb Web Spider 233 Model Human Spinal Column with Artificial Disk 234 Stephen Z.D. Cheng 238 Frank Harris 239 Sharell Mikesell 245 The Applied Polymer Research Center 248 A State-of-the-Art Stereolithography Machine 249 Tracey Richey 250 Polymer Science Today 251–52 Russell A. Livigni, Nissim Calderon 254 Mark Foster 255 Two Students Use Beads to Understand Polymers 256 The Vandorn Demag Injection Molder 258 The Dale Chihuly Polymer Sculpture 261 Stephen Z.D. Cheng 262 ix illustrations Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page ix Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page x In memory of my father Donald L. Bowles Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page xi Bowles.i-xvi 6/16/08 3:57 PM Page xii ...